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NEW DELHI: An inter-ministerial group of Information and Broadcasting Ministry today heard the conflicting versions of representatives of Naveen Jindal led Jindal group and Zee News on allegations of extortion against the channel's editors. The Jindal group had earlier made representations to the I&B ministry seeking action against the channel alleging blackmail by Zee news editors, who have denied the charge. Sources told PTI that an inter-ministerial group of the ministry led by Additional Secretary J S Mathur had a meeting which stretched to several hours during which they heard detailed representations from both sides.

MUMBAI: Zee television group today denied the allegation made by industrialist and Congress MP Naveen Jindal against the channel that it had sought advertisement commitments worth crores of rupees. "This kind of allegation has happened in the past and may happen in the future. It doesn't make any difference to us and we will stick to the truth. These are all pressure tactics," Zee Entertainment Enterprises Managing Director and Chief Executive Punit Goenka told reporters here.

NEW DELHI: Senior executives of Naveen Jindal-headed Jindal group will meet a group of editors of TV news channels on Monday to present evidence in support of a complaint it has filed against Zee News charging the channel's senior journalists with allegedly demanding "advertisement commitments" worth Rs 50 crore to block airing a story about the company. Jindal Steel& Power Ltd has filed an FIR with the anti-extortion cell of the Delhi Police's crime branch, which is investigating the allegation.

MUMBAI: With the digitalisation drive to see its implementation in the coming month, the stock of media and entertainment companies have been the darlings of the stock markets. In the last three months, investors' interest in the stocks of media and entertainment companies has been so strong that most stocks have risen in the range of 30-35%. One of the largest companies in the media and entertainment industry Zee Entertainment Enterprise has risen close to 33% to Rs170. One of the chief reasons for this is the near implementation of digitalisation of four metros in the coming months.

MUMBAI: Increasing viewership and acceptance of regional channels has helped Zee Entertainment Enterprise show stupendous financial performance in the June 2012 quarter. The company recorded jump of 171% in its net profit to Rs197 crore on a year on year basis. This growth has come on the back of increasing advertising and subscription revenues due to high viewership of its regional as well as flagship channel Zee TV. In the June 2012 quarter, the company's advertising revenues grew by 18% to Rs447 crore, while its subscription revenues grew by 19% to Rs364 crore on a year on year basis.

BEIJING: Zee TV has become the first Indian television channel to enter the Chinese market. The clearance, which came after six years of negotiations, would allow leading Chinese hotels to access Indian programmes broadcast by Zee TV. For the first time, Indian cultural content including television soap operas will be distributed in Chinese television market, Indian officials here said. Some of the translated versions of the Indian drama serials are already popular in Chinese channels.

NEW DELHI: Essel Group's Zee TV has received the much-awaited landing rights in China which will enable the media firm to cater to audience in the mandarin country. "Zee TV has got the landing rights in China," a Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson said while briefing reporters on the talks between India's Foreign Minister S M Krishna and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jeichi here. Zee, one of the earliest entrants in the electronic media space in India, had applied for landing rights in China in 2006.

Harendra Kumar , Head of Institution Broking and Global Research, Elara Capital, talks to ET Now on various stocks. Within the media space what do you like print media, television media? Our vote is for Zee Television as the top pick for the year. The stock is now consolidating in strong hands and as the TRP and the GDP bottoms out the stock will set to rerate from here on. The re-rating is at least couple of quarters away but the subscription story as well as the penetration story in cable homes and DTH is a big positive for Zee TV. Yes, you could also see Sun TV reviving itself but yes at least in the Hindi broadcasting space we are positive on Zee TV.

SINGAPORE: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan won the best actor nod at the Zee Cine Awards for his role in 'My Name is Khan'. Actress Vidya Balan bagged the best actress award for her role of a scheming seductress in the film 'Ishqiya'. Salman Khan starrer 'Dabaang' clinched the best film award at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore . Some 8,000 fans attended the five hour gala event, with 5,000 being packed in the main ballroom for the live show and nearly 3,000 took seats in another hall where the show was 'simulcast'.

NEW DELHI: Broadcasting firm Zee Turner on Saturday said it has served a public notice to TV 18-owned cable subsidiary DEN for non-payment of dues and the move could affect telecast of many channels including Zee TV, Cartoon Network, Ten sports among others. "We have served a public notice to DEN for non-payment of dues for about five months now on Thursday (Aug 27, 2009). DEN has 21 days till September 17, 2009 to respond to the notice," Zee Turner Chief Executive Officer Dinesh Jain told PTI. He did not disclose the amount due but said it was in excess of Rs 10 crore.